David, I do not have any comment on whether this patch will be accepted or not based on the changes it makes, but patches do need to be in a particular format, including the author's name. See instructions for how to create a patch in this format here: http://dev.clojure.org/display/community/Developing+Patches

Replaced references to clojure.core/unquote and .../unquote-splicing,
which are unbound.

The UNQUOTE and UNQUOTE-SPLICING Symbols in LispReader don't really
refer to anything in clojure.core any longer. They're created and
elided by the reader when it encounters their respective (reader)
macro chars.

David Rupp
added a comment - 09/Dec/13 7:49 AM - edited Replaced references to clojure.core/unquote and .../unquote-splicing,
which are unbound.
The UNQUOTE and UNQUOTE-SPLICING Symbols in LispReader don't really
refer to anything in clojure.core any longer. They're created and
elided by the reader when it encounters their respective (reader)
macro chars.

Stuart Halloway
added a comment - 31/Jan/14 3:26 PM The patch attached here is poorly-suited for screening. It does more than what it says, (e.g. deleting the def of META) without explaining why.
It also removes things that are commented out. Pretty clear that the BDFL likes having those things stick around.

David Rupp
added a comment - 01/Feb/14 6:57 PM META is not used anywhere. I will explain better next time.
Also, DEREF_BANG has been commented out since 2007 (commit 139ddd146f2a272b7ddda397f54b501ff499c643). Figured it was pretty safe to get rid of at this point. My bad.